Skylake K Series may not Ship with an Intel Stock Cooler

Skylake K Series may not Ship with an Intel Stock Cooler

Skylake K Series may not Ship with an Intel Stock Cooler

While all of this remains unconfirmed by official sources, it looks like Intel's Skylake K Series may not Ship with an Intel Stock Cooler, but instead are expected to be used with higher end 3rd party solutions or higher end Intel Coolers.

below you can see a leaked slide from xfastest, which shows two coolers which could come with Intle Skylake K series CPUs, both support CPUs with a TDP of 130W. While Intel's Skylake CPUs are expected to have a 90W TDP at stock, making Intel's current 95W capable stock cooler more than capable enough to handle it, Intel knows the enthusiast market will simply replace the CPU cooler with a higher end 3rd party model so that they can overclock their new CPU.

According to this slide most Intel Skylake CPUs will be shipping without a stock cooling solution, which is similar to how Intel ships their flagship X99 CPUs.

This is a great move from Intel as it shows a great understanding for the market that K-series CPUs are intended for, as who in their right mind buys an overclocking CPU without a cooling solution that is capable of getting the most out of it.

One hope not is that Intel will pass on some of the savings that they get from not shipping a stock cooling solution to us consumers, though right now this remains unclear.

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